Mission Statement

• UWI's mission is to unlock the West Indian potential for economic and cultural growth by high quality teaching and research aimed at meeting critical regional needs, by providing West Indian society with an active intellectual centre and by linking the West Indian community with distinguished centres of research and teaching in the Caribbean and overseas.

• The University of the West Indies recognises that as a regional university supported by the West Indian peoples, and as the sole local organ equipped to meet local requirements and relate to its own developmental programmes to them, it should give priority to regional needs.